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Fifth seed D.P. Singh of Southern Railway got the better of P. Maheswaran to emerge the sole leader after the eighth and penultimate round in the first KCM FIDE-rated open chess tournament at the Pattia Gounder Chellamal Kalyana Mandapam here on Wednesday.

Important results: Eighth round: P. Maheswaran (TN) 6 lost to D.P. Singh (SR) 7.5; Ramnathan Balasubramaniam (ICF) 6.5 drew with P. Phoobalan (ICF) 6.5; Ram S. Krishnan (BSNL) 7 bt P. Iniyan (TN) 6; Aravindh Chithambaram (ONGC) 7 bt A. Visveshwar (TN) 6; M. Vivek (TN) 6.5 drew with R. Ganesh (TN) 6.5; M. Kunal (TN) 6.5 bt R. Muralidharan (TN) 5.5; R.A. Pradeep Kumar (TN) 6.5 bt Siva Mahadevan (TN) 5.5; B. Arul Senthil (TN) 5.5 lost to M. Vinoth Kumar (TN) 6.5; C.S. Rajesh (TN) 6.5 bt Aadithya Jagadeesh (TN) 5.5; M. Eashwar (TN) 6 drew with Ramesh Shanmugasundaram (TN) 6.

Seventh round: Maheswaran 6 drew with Ram S. Krishnan 6; Singh 6.5 bt Kunal 5.5; Vinoth Kumar 5.5 drew with Vivek 6; Phoobalan 6 bt P. Elancheralathan (TN) 5; Ramnathan 6 bt E. Sharath (TN) 5; M. Barath Kalyan (TN) 5 lost to Aravindh 6; Ganesh 6 bt T. Shyam Sundar (TN) 5; Visveshwar 6 bt V.M. Rajeev (Ker) 5; Iniyan 6 bt T. Selvabharathy (TN) 5; L. Meenakshi Sundaram (TN) 5 lost to Rajesh 5.5.